HRC fact-finding mission's report released Thursday is the international body's harshest condemnation of Israeli policy in West Bank since 1967; UN investigators say Israel must withdraw all settlers at once; Israel's Foreign Ministry: Report is one-sided and biased.

A UN Human Rights Council fact-finding mission on Thursday released its harshest report over Israeli policy in the West Bank since 1967, urging governments and private corporations across the world to consider economic and political sanctions against Israel over its construction in the settlements. This is the first time...

Watch the UN sink under it's own anti semitism against Israel. If the UN
is so powerful ( LOL ) let them tackle Syria or Iran... Why is the UN
even in existence? As a farce? A Muslim show place? A respite from Islam
and their universal theme "where's the hookers and cocaine"? I
wonder how long the UN will be in the US? It's overstayed it's welcome,
like a 60 year old hooker, ugly and expensive.

To occupy has to be from someone else. Israel was promised the entire
country including the "west bank" in fact they were even
promisedththe entire transjordan, the fact that Jordan occupied the west
bank for 19 years doesn't mean when Israel finally received theie
rifhtful land that it is an occupation

Israel must terminate the relationship with UN, they are only there to
sympathize with the Palestinians. On their UN cars is only in Arabic and
English written, but the Shekels they want from Israel. I saw this last
week on the Golan Heights on their cars. UN are really fraud. The UN are
really Ambiguous

The UN sux and is filled with third world Muslim nations who cannot stop
any Muslim terror committed upon their own people. The UN should have
troops in Syria, where are they hiding? Facce it, the UN has become a
Muslims only private club whose office and space was donated by the
rocks in their heads Rockefeller's.

The Palestinians are doing everything to get us out of the territories
without giving in on any of their demands and without giving peace in
return. And our government is losing on every front - time to change tactics.

The UN knows that no sanctions will be imposed on Israel and nothing
will be done to pun ish Israel for it's crimes because the USA will use
it's veto once again to crush any attempt to do so. This is all talk and
no action by the UN.

It is these types of proclamations that destroy the credibility of the
UN in the minds of those like me who are centrist, and believe that is
it in Israel's best interests to negotiate a pathway with the current,
more rational government of Abbas. UN242 calls for a NEGOTIATED
settlement, NOT a complete withdrawal by Israel out of the WB. It IS a
sign of bias how the HRC ignores past UN resolutions, and that it is so
focused on Israel while there are literally hundreds of millions
suffering in terrible gulags inside china, iran and n korea. When is
the HRC going to these nations to focus on those human tragedies?

Those nations you said are not stealing other people´s lands like
israel. TTheir local problems are their own problem. israelis are not
Palestininians and Palestinians are not israelis. That is the diference.

Fine, let's make it a negotiated settlement. May be in that settlement
some border adjustments can be made, may be some settlers prefer to stay
and assume the Palestine nationality. And the rest should move west of
the green line as part of the negotiated settlement. That is no
withdrawal, but the application of international law.

What about the Levy Report? It is entirely legal for Israel to build in
Judea and Samaria, not only our historical heartland but with places -
such as Hebron - where Jewish communities lived continuously for
thousands of years. In addition, no country was actually given
jurisdiction over this whole disputed area so there is noone to
"give it back" to. I hope the Israeli ambassador to the UN
will stand up and make mincemeat of their arguments.

The Palestinian communities in Israel lived there also for thousands of
years, but still, when they had hidden from the violence of the war and
they wanted to return home, the Israeli state refused to let them go to
the places where they had lived thousands of years. I agree with you
that the Jews of Hebron should be able to go back to there homes, but
that means also the Palestinians of Jaffa, Lot, Ramle, Haifa and all
those hundreds of other places in present Israel have the right to
return home. You cannot apply one moral principle for one people and
anothe principle for the other.

This is not the age of Charlemagne or El Cid. Israel even signed a
treaty and is violating that treaty. Israel hasn't even pretended to
annex the land or the people. Why can't Israel adhere to a treaty it
signed and ratified?

What about it? Levy "legalized" the settlements by the crudest
of sleight-of-hands i.e. sure, this w.a.s. an occupation and, sure,
sure, you can't settle occupied territory. But - hey! - Israel looks
like it's gonna to make this a permanent occupation, so that alone means
that Israel can "legally" pretend that it isn't an occupation
any more.

Is it really easier for you to believe that every single human rights
organization, (HRW, Amnesty, Btselem, UN HRC..etc) is in on some sort of
conspiracy to slander Israel, rather than believe that Israel might
actually be doing something questionable? The world can't all be wrong,
apart from Israel and Micronesia.

Time to resign Israel, this self-flagellation is painful to watch on.
The Pal-Arabs have 78% on the East side of the River Jordan, where they
'ld be made retire to from the WB ... and as Hamas's Haniyeh declared
1-2 years ago: "the Gazans are Egyptians and Syrians", so they
too have homelands to go to. --- I'm so tired of distortions of facts
and this constant bullying, which I take for sheer anti-semitism. I
admire your patience Israel.

The UN no longer can be regarded as an objective and impartial
organization, bc the majority of its members are Muslim states. OF
COURSE they keep bickering on Israel non-stop. That is their religious
duty that they've made the UN's duty too! - From a Westerner's
viewpoint, it is absurd of the UN to have Syria sit in the HCR -LOL!-
The Muslim states don't even recognize the UN's Universal Human Rights
from 1949, bc it is contradictory to their Sharia. To have Iran sit in
the Woman's rights forum - LOL! - is just as inconceivable, bc
Islam/Sharia, deprives women from their human rights and equality. Acc.
to Sharia "a woman's testimony is a half of a man's testimony"
!! What about letting Ahmadenijehad speak in the UN and slander one of
the UN's member-states, Israel, before all the other member states? And
not once, but repeatedly !! --- As I see it the UN represents
exclusively the Muslims and drives at their agenda and therefore the UN
has turned against its original missions and has not only lost good
manners but it also has lost its mind.

not because I have anything against human rights; but the UN Human
Rights Council is the last organization I would turn to to uphold HUMAN
(as opposed to merely Palestinian) rights. Yes, the Palestinians are
humans. But so are the Syrians, the Iranians, the Afghanis, the Chinese,
and hundreds of milluions of other oppressed humajn beings. But for some
unexplained reason, the HRC has chosen to focus almost solely on Israel
and the Palestinians. What could be the reason? Moslem oil? The large
number of Moslem states? Certainly not any mass slaughtering or mass
torture, as goes on in other countries mentioned.

Israel has been destroying peoples lives for over 60 years, the
suffereing caused by their illegal occupation and violent settlers has
to end. Only those that don't have first hand knowledge take your view.

Sanctions and divestment is the way forward. Also preventing war
criminals like Bibi to travel. Indict them and when they travel take
them to The Hague anbd put them in trial. Same goes for settlement
leaders who promote violence. Arrest them when they travel.

Nor should he ever. World politics are to be decided by the world's
people not some god without evidence of existing. Yes Israel is a Jewish
state, but their god (nor the PA's) cannot be used to justify their
actions. Israel is in violation of UN law, period! UN law is the WORLD'S
LAW. I am happy with this UN decision, and I hope Europe will
eventually follow, as if they do, it will substantially level the ground
in this conflict.

All nations began with 'settlements', America, Africa, Australia, Europe
ME etc. Most nations were built upon lands won by war. Israel wont give
in to her anti semitic tormenters, why should she? she won the ands that
were always hers to begin with. The UN is avery bad joke.

Where does the UN expect Israel to put hundreds of thousands of settlers
in Israel proper? The UN also has no real power, as we all know. Nothing
can be forced. Israel should stop the current settlements being
constructed, but removing every single settler is probably impossible.

The problem is Israels. Theodor Meron legal adviser to the Eshkol govt
in 1967 told the Israeli government the settlements contravened the
explicit provisions of the Fourth Geneva Convention so Israel cannot say
it did not know it was committing a war crime. Israel willingly violated
the law it therefore has an obligation to fix it if it is the honest
nation it claims to be. There is plenty of room inside Israel
proper...look at the Negev...send them there to make the desert bloom.

Israel agreed to certain commitments and to abide by certain laws when
it did so, but immediately took the position that while it expected
everyone to respect what it gained in doing so, it was not going to
respect or even acknowledge what the deal required of it.

Time the UN and everyone else in this world woke up to the FACT that GOD
says ISRAEL has a right to the WHOLE LAND, I'm not Jewish I'm a born
again Christian who will stand by GOD in this matter and therefore I
stand with ISRAEL, be Blessed ISRAEL with a blessing from your Scottish
Friends :-)

My friend, you are not standing by God. Instead, you are standing by a
concept, a dangerous one that forces the oppression of others. Do you
think that God can be reduced to a few words? In fact, it is time that
you woke up to the suffering of others. There you may find your God.

Israel must and will continue to build own home on own land. PA can
proclaim own state right now without delay on land which PA has today.
But any request to have more land plus E.Jerusalem will never be
happened and peace talk will be dead lock for years. UN human rights
must stop supporting PA in their non-realistic position.

1) Does Israel own compensation and the return of Jerusalem to the
descendants of the Canaanites? 2) A LOT of states that no longer exist
3,000 years ago. What's your point? 3) that's 2,000 years for David, not 3,000.

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